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  • 6 - Judging armed humanitarian intervention

    • By Helen Frowe, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
  • Edited by Don E. Scheid, Winona State University, Minnesota
  • Book:
    The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    24 April 2014, pp 95-112

  • Summary

    This chapter argues for what the author calls the justification-based account of humanitarian intervention, according to which the permissibility of humanitarian intervention is determined by two central criteria. The first is that there exists a sound justification for intervention, roughly, that there is a threatened or ongoing process of widespread and serious rights violations that can be averted only by military force and such force is proportionate. This criterion can be satisfied ad bellum. The second criterion is that the actions of interveners are reasonably expected to aid. This criterion applies largely to the in bello behavior of the intervening state. One of the difficulties in making sense of the debate about how to identify humanitarian interventions lies in distinguishing the various components of behavior, motives, intentions, actions, ends, and outcomes.